Author: Paulo Garcia
Juiced.GS subscribers should start receiving the new issue of Juiced.GS soon. The issue 1, volume 22 brings lots of interesting articles, as state the official announcement: This issue features a tutorial for telnetting to bulletin board systems from your Apple II; reviews of the AP40 wireless Bluetooth game controller and the Floppy Emu storage device; an interview with Joe Santulli,…
The episode #70 of FloppyDays has been published featuring an interview with Michael Tomczyk where he tells everything about the development of the VIC-20. Michael was with Commodore for some time, was an assistant to none other than Jack Tramiel, and was the leader of the team known as the Vic Commando Team. You can download FloppyDays following the link below or stream…
If you, like me, have a pile of Commodore disk drives that don’t work, this video might be useful. Published by Jan Beta channel on YouTube, the video shows the steps to fix a 1541 disk unit. The drive didn’t spin up if you turned it on and didn’t react at all to commands from the computer. LEDs were working. Spindle…
It has been released ‘Break Free’, a new game for the TI-99/4A developed entirely in GPL Assembler. The gameplay is similar to Arkanoid/Breakout, but with a small difference: to pass the level, you are supposed to break only enough bricks to find the key that you let you get out, but not all of them. The game has six levels, the…
Gamasutra website has published an interview with John Romero about TEd, a tile editor that was used to build many games from the past (including Wolfstein,Commander Keen, etc). The article is the first of a series that will try to cover iconic game development tools. In recent years, retrospectives of classic games have been well received at GDC, but there have…
The Retrogaming Party happened last January 13 and 14 in Portugal. Result of a partnership between Retromania website and ISPGaya, the event was divided in two days to serve two different publics. One day was dedicated to the ISPGaya students, who had the opportunity to get in contact with the most important and iconic machines from the 80s and 90s. The second…
Hackaday has always being a “friend” of retro-computing with many articles pointing to cool projects related to the computers of the golden age! Today, they are showing off a portable Apple IIe created by Jorj Bauer, which include a tiny keyboard, a TTF screen, SD card support, all powered by the microcontroller development board Teensy 3.6 equipped with an 180 MHz ARM…
The New Dimension‘s Richard Bayliss has announced on Twitter that the SEUCK game competition for 2016/2017 deadline has arrived and it has received nine contestants. Now it is time for you help to choose the best ones. To do that, you can head over The New Dimension website, download, play and finally vote. The winners will get extra help to either…
Peter Leigh has released a 2-video special about the Amstrad CPC. The 1-hour long video is available on Nostalgia Nerd YouTube channel and tells a detailed story of the origins of Amstrad and how the iconic Amstrad CPC came to be. If you are from one of the countries where Amstrad sold the CPC, it is a great opportunity to revive the…
If you are looking for a way to play “Monty and the Temple of Lost Souls”, you have plenty of choices, including the excellent Fuse emulator, available for Linux, MacOs and Windows. The new version brings: Added support for the hidden MEMPTR register Mark new disks as needing to be saved Show more information on disk modification status in menus…
